Open AccessPeer Collaboration: Improving Teaching through Comprehensive Peer Review
Author(s) -
Smith Shelley L.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/tia2.20007
Subject(s) - formative assessment , peer review , portfolio , process (computing) , technical peer review , resistance (ecology) , medical education , engineering ethics , psychology , computer science , pedagogy , political science , engineering , medicine , business , law , ecology , finance , biology , operating system
This article includes a brief rationale and review of the literature on peer review of teaching ( PRT ). Based on that literature review, it offers a proposal for an optimal formative review process that results in a teaching portfolio that would reflect a faculty member's efforts and successes in a critically reflective PRT process, and contributes to ongoing teaching improvement. It then looks at potential areas of faculty resistance and concern and offers a discussion of potential strategies to overcome those concerns.